Pregame Prayers & Tailgate Tales:
A Damn Good Bulldawg’s Road to Eternal Glory

After waiting over 40 years for a national title, lifelong Georgia
fan Charlie English humorously recounts the team’s two-year run
atop college football during the 2021 and 2022 seasons in Pregame Prayers & Tailgate Tales. English’s pregame devotionals capture the passion and pageantry of gamedays in the South through the witty and irreverent lens of a long-suffering, God-fearing, and brown-liquor-loving lifelong Bulldawgs fan.
 
As a child, English grew up reading Lewis Grizzard, the legendary Atlanta Journal-Constitution sports columnist. Echoing the humorist’s wry observations on sports, food, and culture in the South, English gives his unique perspective on the cherished tradition of fall Saturdays, complete with a collection of delicious recipes and a consistent dose of bourbon.
 
Excerpt from the Book:
...And all of Your Children, adorned in Red & Black silken and bedazzled sequined accouterments, arose from their bar stools, raised a glass that over-runneth with your delicious golden Brown Licker high into the morning sky, and hollered, “Goooooooooo Dawgs! Sic’em! Woof! Woof! Woof!”
 
Acknowledgements:
Even though I thanked my parents in this book, I must continue to thank them for all that they’ve done for me. I am so blessed to still have them in my life in their upper 80’s. They have had such a positive effect on my life. I haven’t always been the best son, but they laid the solid foundation that I have tried building upon that sometimes has worked, and other times, not so much.    
 
I want to thank the All-Star Team who helped put together my first book, “Pregame Prayers & Tailgate Tales…A Damn Good BullDawgs Journey to Eternal Glory”! Without this Team, my books success wouldn’t have been possible:
 
Ripples Media/Publisher- Andrew Vogel & Nicole Wedekind
Rob Matre/Cover Art- Plaid Columns, Matre Gallery
Burtch Hunter Design/Graphic Design- Burtch Hunter
Boss Hogg Productions/Web Design/Webmaster – Scott “Boss” Hogg
Kremer Communications/Publicist - Rob Kremer
Athens Printing Company/Marketing & Promotional Products- Chan & Stephanie Fields
 
Thank you to Barbara Dooley and Hershel Walker for their kind words in the Foreword of my latest release.
 
I want to thank all the people who came to my book signing events across the great State of Georgia and the Dawg people of North Florida who are living in danger everyday living behind enemy lines.
 
Thank you to all my Social Media friends, aka, my Congregation, whom I meet in person for the first time after following me and engaging with me for years on Facebook & Instagram. Thank you to my long-time friends who came out in my support and who purchased books, fed me delicious food and copious amounts of Brown Licker. To the childhood friend whom I reconnected with after he and his family moved from Cochran when we were in the 3rd grade and I hadn’t seen him since, but I recognized him when he walked up. To all my Fraternity Brothers who came out to support me and to be reconnected with those Brothers who I haven’t seen since I graduated in 19 and 87! And to the people who opened their homes to me and let me crash on their uncomfortable sofa couches and randomly decorated guest bedrooms, thank you!
 
Thank you to all my friends who selfishly contributed college “picture man” pictures included in this book. There were many pictures that we were not able to include due to incriminating, embarrassing, and the fear of incarceration(s). Contributors: Carrie Lauder, Kim & Guy Eberhardt, Mary Jill & Russell Springer, Stacey White Davenport, Debbie Wiley King, Marla-Deen Thomas Brooks, Doree Dobbs Boswell, Laura Allen, Ralph Shields, Anna & Brian Fiveash and Me
 
Thank you post ominously to Terry Stephens for the UGA football pictures and to his widow and son, TJ, for sharing them with me.
 
And finally, thank you to all the members of my Congregation who continue to torment me by sending me picture of White Boots from every corner of the world! 
 
GO DAWGS!
 
Charlie English
July, 2025